The Directors & Editors Guild of NZ (DEGNZ) invites applications from mid-career editors with significant documentary experience to apply for an International Editor’s Mentorship with award-winning American editor Doug Blush.

Doug Blush is an award-winning director, producer, editor, writer and cinematographer who has worked on over fifty feature documentaries and TV programmes, and has been nominated five times for Best Editing at the Sundance Film Festival.

Doug’s recent credits include the Oscar-winning theatrical hit 20 Feet From Stardom, directed by Morgan Neville, which won him an ACE Eddie Award for Best Documentary Editing. Doug was editor and associate producer of 2012’s Academy Award nominated and double Emmy Award winning The Invisible War, directed by Kirby Dick, and worked with the same team on the Oscar-shortlisted film The Hunting Ground. His latest films as supervising editor include The Music of Strangers and Jim, which won the Audience Award at Sundance 2016 and aired on HBO.

He also co-directed Of Two Minds with wife Lisa Klein, which won both the 2013 EIC Prism and SAHMSA Voice Awards for excellence in films on mental health issues. He is working on a follow-up film with Lisa, The S Word, highlighting the rising activism of suicide survivors against silence and stigma.

Doug has been a visiting professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Syracuse University and Malaysia Multimedia University, and has taught across Indonesia with the Sundance Institute.

This is an exciting opportunity for a New Zealand editor with proven talent to benefit from collegial advice and international support as they move to the next stage of their career. You need to be a FULL member of DEGNZ to apply.

A maximum one-page letter about why you should be chosen and what you hope to gain from the mentorship.

A CV.

Up to 3 examples online of past work (not showreel).

Your DEGNZ membership number.

It is preferred that you have a project that you wish to discuss with Doug as part of the mentorship. Please include brief details on the project.

Only FULL DEGNZ members may apply. If you are not a member and wish to join, you can do so here: www.degnz.co.nz/join/
Applications should be submitted electronically to admin@degnz.co.nzno later than 5pm, Wednesday 12 October.

This initiative is brought to you with the support of the New Zealand Film Commission.